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D.C Confidential is the long-awaited true-crime anthology by nationally acclaimed investigative journalist, roots-music scholar, essayist and radio DJ Eddie Dean. In this compilation of pieces from various publications, Dean, a former editor of the Washington D.C. City Paper, explores several notorious capital area murders and other skullduggery—including the notorious Middleburg Polo Player Murder and the dreadful history of the Takoma Park Seekers Cult. To his detailed examinations of these and other crimes, Dean brings a journalist’s meticulous observations and a hard-boiled poet’s command of the language—and analytical chops worthy of a modern-day inside-the-Beltway Dostoevsky. True Crime writing at its literary best. Eddie Dean is a nationally known music journalist, writer and editor. His Man of Constant Sorrow, an oral history of Bluegrass Legend Ralph Stanley and Kentucky Traveler, an as-told-to life of the acclaimed country singer Ricky Skaggs were critical and commercial successes and are considered exemplars of the musical biography genre. He was for years editor of the print edition of the Washington D.C. City Paper and is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, for which he writes on a variety of cultural issues. His journalism has appeared there, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. His popular radio show Screaming Target can be heard on WWOD Takoma Park on Tuesdays from 2 to 4.  He lives with his wife in Maryland.